EPA Bid for Carbon Clarity Fails to Satisfy Business
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to give states a leading role in curbing pollution tied to global warming failed to satisfy the agency’s critics in business and the U.S. Congress.
The agency said yesterday that states can determine what pollution-cutting technologies power plants and oil refineries should use when the first national carbon-dioxide emission rules take effect next year. Environmental activists praised EPA’s flexibility. Opponents said the rules were too vague and would damage the economy.